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Saginaw City Directory 1924, 1924
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1Introduction
3The volume herewith presented constitutes R. L. Polk & Co's Saginaw City Directory for 1924. The publishers have endeavored to produce a volume combining all that is vital in the civic, social and industrial life and activity of the city.
5A careful enumeration of the citizens and business interests of the city and a compilation of the result by trained employees assures as correct and reliable a work of its character as is possible to be produced. The publishers have an organization solely devoted to the publication of directories, and their methods and resources are unrivalled. Their imprint on the hundreds of directories published for cities throughout the country attests the quality and reliability of their product. Directories are an essential and indispensable means of reference and an index to what is in a city. They portray the community as it actually is and they are the only means whereby its various features can be learned by the general public throughout the country.
7The statistical review which follows this introduction is noteworthy and clearly visualizes the importance of Saginaw in commerce, finance and industry.
9The essential features of the work are set forth in the order following:
11THE MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT is contained in pages 13 to 28; it comprises data concerning city and county officials, Federal officers, banks, building associations, cemeteries, churches, clubs, courts, hospitals, homes, libraries, schools, convents, newspapers, parks, public buildings, halls, postoffice data, etc. This department covers every phase of civic and social activity.
13THE BUYERS' GUIDE occupies pages 33 to 84. This section of the Directory, printed on tinted paper, includes numerous advertisements of the leading manufacturing, business and professional interests of Saginaw. They have been carefully grouped by departments and are indexed under classified headings and otherwise in various parts of the Directory. A casual perusal of these advertisements will picture many interesting phases of the city's activities.
15THE STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE AND DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS is included in pages 85 to 225. This Department embraces a list of all the Streets and Avenues in the city alphabetically arranged; the houses and buildings being arranged in numerical order, with the name of the occupants or householders placed opposite each number.
17THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of citizens and business concerns is embraced in pages 227 to 740.
19THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is contained in pages 741 to 818; this department exhibits the various manufacturing, mercantile and professional occupations compiled in alphabetical order by headings and this feature constitutes an invaluable and indispensable epitome of the business interests of the community. "The Directory is the common intermediary between Buyer and Seller."
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